"My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.“

-Meghan O'Rourke

posted in knowledge

Meghan O'Rourke quote about knowledge: "My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, o..."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing."

-Meghan O'Rourke

christmasView Quote

"It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength."

-Meghan O'Rourke

strengthView Quote

"Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes."

-Meghan O'Rourke

"But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone."

-Meghan O'Rourke

aloneView Quote

"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote

"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."

-Stanley Fish

knowledgeView Quote

"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."

-Harrison Salisbury

knowledgeView Quote

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

-Abraham Cowley

knowledgeView Quote

"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."

-George Andrew Olah

knowledgeView Quote

"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."

-Carl Clinton Van Doren

knowledgeView Quote

"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"

-Will Harvey

knowledgeView Quote